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  1. 1

    All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

    Dorothy Parker
    Autobiography
  2. 2

    Art is a form of catharsis.

    Dorothy Parker
    Arts and Artists
  3. 3

    Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

    Dorothy Parker
    Dress
  4. 4

    Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

    Dorothy Parker
    Parties
  5. 5

    Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

    Dorothy Parker
    Parties
  6. 6

    Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

    Dorothy Parker
    Pregnancy
  7. 7

    Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.

    Dorothy Parker
    Gratitude
  8. 8

    He -- Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

    Dorothy Parker
    Office
  9. 9

    Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

    Dorothy Parker
    Hollywood
  10. 10

    I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. Out there, I called it.

    Dorothy Parker
    Hollywood
  11. 11

    I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

    Dorothy Parker
    Gossip
  12. 12

    I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

    Dorothy Parker
    Men
  13. 13

    I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.

    Dorothy Parker
    Apathy
  14. 14

    If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

    Dorothy Parker
    Writers and Writing
  15. 15

    It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

    Dorothy Parker
    Tragedy
  16. 16

    Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

    Dorothy Parker
    Love
  17. 17

    Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.

    Dorothy Parker
    Suicide
  18. 18

    Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

    Dorothy Parker
    Lovers
  19. 19

    She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

    Dorothy Parker
    Acting and Actors
  20. 20

    Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

    Dorothy Parker
    Sorrow
  21. 21

    The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

    Dorothy Parker
    Children
  22. 22

    The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.

    Dorothy Parker
    Words
  23. 23

    There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

    Dorothy Parker
    Wit
  24. 24

    They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

    Dorothy Parker
    Adversity
  25. 25

    This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

    Dorothy Parker
    Books and Reading

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